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THAT SILVER LOAN CABLE.

OFFICIAL NANKING

DENIAL.

JUDGE LINEBARGER NOT AUTHORISED.

MACAO WEEK BY WEEK.

BETTER STEAMER SERVICE LIKELY.

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HU HAN-MIN'S VIEWS.procession. From

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1931.

LIBERIA SLAVERY

TRAGEDIES.

FOREIGN EXPERTS TO AID GOVERNMENT.

LEAGUE NOMINEES.

London, Mar. 3.

by the Connell of the League of The special committee appointed Nations to enquire into slavery in Liberia with a view to remedy, has been meeting at the British Foreign, Office since February 27, under the chairmanship of Viscount Cecil of Chetwood.

FILM DEVELOPMENT DISCOVERY.

ENLARGEMENTS TO FORTY- EIGHT TIMES ORIGINAL.

an-

New York, Jan. 27. A process of film development which may revolutionise certain aspects of photography in nounced by Dr. Miller Hutchison. the Inventor and former chief storage space for photograph ex engineer to Edison. The need of perimenta led him to seele a man- ner whereby pictures might be on larged beyond the usual ratio of four to one.

Heer Lightari, a prominent ban. Alm is used.

Macao, Mar. 1. The Procesalon of the Cross which should have taken place on | Sunday last, but was postponed owing to bad weather, took place to-day, with great pomp and sole- mnity. This most important of re ligious observances at Macho at tracted, as usual, large crowds of the Faithful an

an participatera in the the Cathedral of Se, the procension wended ita Nanking, Feb. 23.

He found that the grain on an way alowly through the streets,

ordinary film prevented greater With reference to the reports the representation of Christ. In lifo

a simple The discussions were concluded enlargement, but by by press size, weighed under the cross, to-day, the Commitee deciding to recently circulated

ing borne along to the church of St. invite M. Brunot, a prominent the grain without damaging the process ho eliminated agencies alleging that Mr. Augustine on a hilly eminence in French official who has considerable negatives. Ho has now perfected Han-min, President of the the centre of the town.

administrative experience on the a Alm which may be magnifled Ivory Coast, to undertake a special Legislative Yuan, had sent a

References { cable to Mr. Paul Lincharger,

the early commission ns a General Adrainerin forty-eight times the size of the negative even when pan authorising him to open negotin-mencement of greyhound racing at tlon expert in Liberia.

Macas have brought forth a crop

discovery is Important in tions with the United States of rumours regarding the possibiker from the Dutch East Indies, in talk-films since the present limit Government for a loan to Chinality of a better steamer service bein be invited to visit Liberia as a of photographs of sound vibra: of a thousand million ounces of tween Hongkong and Macao, and it Finance Expert, wille n Health Ex. tions (four thousand each foot) is

be designated certain part is to

by the raised to more than twelve thou- is lao so reparted that silver, Mr. Hu Han-min, inter- Macau interests are also keen on Health organisation of the League and by Mr. Hutchison's process, viewed yesterday, declared that contributing to subsidize a better of Nations.

making the reproduction of high Those appointed will make up a soprano notes possible. Since the Venezia ́ has service, the reports

absolutely

been maintaining a regular service, special mission to draw up a con- Dr. Hutchison explained that erroneous.

the older ships have suffered a fail-crete plan of assistance to the the grain which causes the trou- President Hu pointed out that ing off in their passenger traille. Liberian Government. They will bie comes from sliver nitrate and leave for Liberia as soon as pos- other sensitisers on the finis, "the negotiation and contracting of There is some talk about

fareiga loans was a matter belonging for a modified schedule to enable to study the situation on the which when over-magnified dis- to the jurisdiction of the able the slower vessels to regain a spot and to be in close touch with tort the details of the picture.

"The simple expedient of flat- executive department of the Gov-portion of the lust business. Stas the Liberian Government.

tistics show that there is a slight| They will examine the administening the grain after the picture orsment and was one which the

number of trutive, public health and financial s taken is the basin of the new National Government alone bad increase in the total

passengers, but the increased uam-neslatance necessary to give effect process, and is done chemically the right to authorize.

er, evidently, is not sufficient to to the social reforms suggested by before the sensitisers are made Justify the maintenance of four re- the Commission. They will als solid by the hypo-bath." gular vessel.

consider the expenditure involved by their proposals and make a survey of the resources available for carrying them out.

ing

were

to

No Right to Negotinte. "myself have no right instruct any person whatsoever to negotiate for foreign lonas," said President Hu,

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After a long genation of exten- sion operations, work is to recom- menco to complete the Macro-

The Liberian Government has undertaken to ntford the experts.

"ALADDIN'S CAVE"

ADVENTURE.

SO GLAD TO MEET YOUR LATE WIFE.

Continued from Page 6.)

periences including even love allairs. Their manner to cach other has touch of the new camaraderie and the old intimacy. They talk easily and happily to gether. They even kiss with the castral modern freedom of friends.

White, judging from the world Shekki Highway in its northern

Bern every facility and wistance.-- cronorale depression as well as the section, peur Shekki. It is believed Reuter and British Wireless. special needs of China-such as

that work will advance quickly and promotion of industries and de-that it will soon be possible to make volopment of the North-West --he the trip from Macao to Shekki, believed that thers existed a need without halting, in an hour and a for foreign enpital, and in view of half. For some nonthe past all the reasonableness of the terms of work on the road was stoppeil, and the proposed American

Jon, he the obstacle to be overcome was the was personally in favour of it, he bridgins of a stream at a place

POLICE ON CAMELS. had. nevertheless, neither the called Tai Wan, some twelve miles right nor the wish to handle auch south of Shekki. There was some

Johannesburg, Jan. 25. a financial matter. President Du difficulty about rights of competing: The reputed Aladdin's Cave, the concluded.--Kuo Min.

roads, but a working arrangement door of which is richly studded has been concluded satisfactory to with diamonds, lying along the dry the rival interests, and it will noted of the Tsontab River deep in be lung before construction work the heart of the Namib desert in South West Africa, has again led will be recommenced in varnest.

to trouble.

A party of five Windhoek men obtained

from the permission

Mr. Kung Interviewed,

A lengthy Interview was granted on Friday night by Mr. 11. 1. Kung, Minister of Industries. to Mr.

·Paul Linebarger, Jr., son of the The Portuguese anthorities have

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Legal Advisor of the National Gas invited tenders for the purchase authorities to seek the cave, which ernment, Mr. Paul Linebarger, who the Patria which has been withs within the prohibited Stato originated negotiations for a silver drawn from service, Particulara loan by the United States to China.of the vessel Inve been published diamond area, on the condition that Mr. Linebarger came specially and bids should be addressed to the policeman accompanied them. from Pekly upon the instruction mittes charged with receiving During the first search their provi- sious ran out, and they returned to of his father in ascertain the views bids, not inter than Mar. 31.

Windhoek, after which they were informed that the official permit

on the leaders of the Government.

His visit was made all the more

interesting because

made at time when

it Is being LIPSTICK IN ANCIENT

Silver

110

ROME.

was withdrawn.

Old fashioned people are stunned, and cynics shrug their shoulders; it is a sign of the times, and they accept it as such, while the neo- Georgians think nothing of it What does it all mean? Is it a truce or stupid sensationalism? Are they generous and forgiving, merely shallow and absurd?

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To my mind there is a train of apparently fantastic travesty of the cause and effect discernible in this tie which bound them together. Light friendships arise from easy divorce just ns loiently as easy divorce has resulted in casual mar riage, from which the old spirit which aid down that this was not a relationship to be entered into raslily, lightly or ill advisedly, seema to have entirely departed..

Nevertheless, they slipped out of the town at night-time in a forry.

A woman can have three or even On hearing of this the authori-four husbands, yet in the old senso

Loan Bill, proposed by Senator Pittman of Nevada, has just passed the Senate Foreign Relations Com-CHEST OF COSMETICS FOUND |ties sent in pursuit a police patrol she is not married at all. -mittee.

Could Be Ilsed.

the

AT FRANKFORT,

ELECTORAL REFORM

MEASURE.

of

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nor

Natural- mounted on camels. After days of their irresponsible unions have struggling through the water-tesno profound sense of loss or insert they struck the trail of the poignancy or regret when they nro Berth, Jan. 25. That the belles of society in Im-raiders, and ambushed them amid severed and a friendship as mean- Asked what he thought of

ingless as was the marriage passage of the Bill by the Com with the lipstick than those of lo

perial Rome were no less sparing the sand dunes,"

The five men were arrested, con- follow the parting easily enough.

These people neither love mittee, Mr. Kung agreed that it was a step towards the right diree-day is known to as by the fulminu-victed, and sent to prison for vary

hate. They do not feel the agony loneliness, the Scourge of tion, for China was just about to en- tions of the moralists and satirists terme, ter into a period of intensive indu-time, the direct ocular proof has of the age, but now, for the first

memory, the torture of recollected strialization and a large quantity

joy or Morrow. They are just of silver could be used with good come to light as a result of excava-

marionettes going through the ges- tions in the Roman settlements on advantage, especially when one con the site of the Frankfort suburbs of

tures which simulate reality. aldered that the rate of Interest

Bringing artificial flowers to an empty grave. was low and that the term of the Heddernheim and Prauheim.

It is now proved that, however much fashions may have changed in

the the past 1.700 years, In-atituents and apparatus of cosme- ties have remained almost the same, The excavations yielded a finely- of the silver bullion thus obtained carved metal chest filled with only within the borders of the various tellet requirements, in- country for purposes of buying cluding an elegant slate, used ap raw materials, paying for labour parently as a kind of palette on and financing China's disbandment which te grind and mix face paints, plan to turn the soldiery into uad-nail scissors, and other articles to ful and

constructive labour, as be found on any modern lady's this would increase the outputs in dressing table.

toan was 50 yeŊrs.

Domestic Circulation Only. However, the Minister of dustries favoured the circulation

COD-

the national factorius, utilize idle Two small brown and white hands and elevate the livelihoodsticks,

day.

of the general populace, so earn-sticks, which the chest also con estly being sought by the National subjected to chemical analysis, to Government.

be lipstick containing almost the As a measure to strengthen the same ingredients as those used to position of the silver loan, Dr. Kung further suggested that at gold credit loan be niso granted to China, with which she could make har purchases of machinery and `raw materials abroad. ̧

there.

Complementary Loans.

CORRESPONDENCE.

A Correction.

(To The Editor of Hongkong Telegraph.]

THE "GUILLOTINE" TO BE APPLIED,

Lendon, alar. 3.

MILLIONAIRE DIES OF

STARVATION.

A time-table for discussion of the Electoral Reform Bill, which

FORTUNE IN TINS. embodies the principle of the al ternative Vote in Parliamentary

Paris, Jan. 30. elections, was proposed in the

Europe's most remarkable mil- louse of Commons this emot

lionaire has died of starvation. He by the Prime Minister.

The was M. Creste, an old bachelor who Mr. Baldwin resisted ou ground that the proposed time owned a big estate and large addi- table involved limiting diseasion tional property at Bormes, in the

mintonly Var Department In by the closure

11 I'm Franco. called the Guillotine ed that this should not be resorted to in n mensure affecting Parlin mentary representation..

The Prime Minister's motion was earried.-British Wireless,

Southern

I had never had a banking ac- count; he had never signed or ac- cepted a cheque; he would not touch paper money; ho had never bought stocks and shares.

For many years he lived on a daily meal of a few potatoes, beans RUBBER RESTRICTION und figs, but lately his fore had been

PROBLEMS.

COLONIAL OFFICE DECLINES ACTION/

In

oven more Spartan.

Ha estate was large and well cultivated. M. Create did all the work on it himself, for no labourers would stay in "the house where there is nothing to eat," as his farmhouse was called locally,

An Expensive Fire.

him

The proceeds of the second loan, according 10 the suggestion. should be left on deposit with Home American banking group and

London, Mar. 3.

M. Creste was not a misor; in- would be drawn only to finance Sir,-Regarding the report in

the House of Commons at. China's Industrial machinery and last night's edition of your paper question-time to-day, Dr. Drum- deed, he was always generous. He- supplies. This would stimulate concerning a Kowloon Police mond Shiels, the Under-Secretary fixed his house rents at a low figure employment in America and help Court ease of theft of roller skates, of State for the Colonies, said it and would never raise them, but to solve the unemployment issue the report was headed "Y.M.C.A. was not the intention of Lord Pass Insleted that rents should be paid

Boy Charged." This is not correct, field at present to appoint a com- in coin at sunrise on quarter day,

Recently his brother left The

Is the son of mitee to examine the rubber situa- boy concerned The two longs are complement-one of the workmen employed by tion in the Straits Settlements and 54,800 in various investments and It was afterwards discovered that ary to each other, according to

the

engaged on the Coylon. contractor ▸ the Minister, and, when granted.

Neither did the Secretary of the old man, who did not under construction of the new Y.M.C.A. will contribute greatly to

extension. He has

initiate a review of the circums about, had used the bearer certif I would be grateful if you would tances under which the Stavonsen cafes to light a fire.

M. Create was found dead in his kindly give publicity to this Scheme was removed.-Router.

house and in the cellar were dis- correction and so clear the name

covered two large tins full of gold, J. H. Hunt, The opening rate of the dollar this silver, copper and nickel colna-bis

fortune. Secretary, Y.M.C.A. | morning was 10%d.

elimination of the world business over to do with the thing what State for the Colonies propose to stand what the documents

depression which is now prevalent,

has

*. Mr. Linebarger is highly antis-

fied with the encouragment been receiving in this and other interviews and in forwarding tho ́local suggestions to his father.

Y.M.CIA.

of our staff.—Yours, etc.

were

EXTRALITY TALKS

RESUMED.

SIR MILES LAMPSON NOW IN NANKING.

BRITISH POLICY.

Sir Miles

London, Mar, 3.

Minister at Peking, arrived at Lampson, British

Nanking on Sunday and during his visit to the sent of the National Government the discussions on the question of extraterritoriality will be pursued.

Preliminary conversations with the Chinese Minister for Foreign Affairs have already begun, and it is hoped that a settlement of the whole question may result.

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The present British policy in China is based on the Memorandum randum recognised that with the of December, 1926. This Memo stabilisation of political conditions extraterritoriality could wholly maintained.

The negotiations in 1929 were interrupted owing to internal trou bies culminating in civil war, but when at its conclusion it appeared that the Nanking Government was: armly established, the time appear- ed ripe for their resumption

Accordingly, in September last, Sir Miles Lampson presented a draft agreement, to which Chinese Government replied in December with a counter-draft,

the

bean Those documents have carefully studied and have prepared the way for the present negotiations, which have been bogun on the assumption that the Chinese Government now controls the internal situation-- -British Wireless,

SHARE PRICES.

TO-DAY'S

QUOTATIONS.

The following is the list of local share quotations issued to-day:

Banks.

Hongkong Bank, $2175 b. Chartered Bank 216% Mercantile A. and B., £231⁄4 0. East Asin $116 b.

Insurances.

Canton Ins., $1300 n. Union Ins.. $642% n. North China Ins., Tis. 160 b. China Underwriters, $3.00 b. Yangtare Ino., $50 n.. China Fires, $535 b.

H. K. Fire Ins., $1305. n.

Shipping.

Douglases, $27 5.

H. K. Steamboats, $26.75 g. Indo-Chinas, (Def.) '330 n. Union Waterboats, $37 a.

Mining.

Benguets, $104 n Kailans, 36/3 n.

S'hai Explorations, Tis. 2 D. Raubs 40% n.

Docks, etc.

Kowloon Wharves, $173% 8. Whampoa Docks, $30% b. South China Motora $10 . China Providents, $5.35 b. (olti), Iongkows-Tis 278 b New Engineers. Tis. 5 Shanghai Docks, Ths. 110 b.

Coltons.

b.

Ewo Cotton, Tls. 16.95 . S'hai Cotton Tls, 103 (old) n.

Lands, Hotels, etc.

H. and S. Hotels, $12.70 b. II. K. Land, 3843⁄41⁄4% b. S'hai Land Tls. 420 b. Humpreys, $16.85 n. Realtion, $9.50, D.

Public Utilities.

Tramways, $17.60 b. Peak Trams, (old) $13.95 b. Star Ferries, $88 b. i. Chinn Lights, (old) $25 b. H. K. Electrics, 380, b. Telephones, $42 b. China Buses, Tls. 19 n. Singapore Tractions, 6/6 s.

Industrials.

China Supars, 80 cts, n. Malabone $36 b. Canton Ices, $3.40 . Cements (Comb.) $16.00 b Ropes, $14.20 b.

Venz: Goldfolds $3.60 b.

Stores, etc.

Dairy Farms, $26.10 B. Watson, $13.40 n. Der A. Wings, $1 n. Lane Crawfords, $3.00 b. Mackintosh, $20 n. Sinceres, $131⁄4% n.

Miscellaneous. Amusements; $2814 n. Constructions. $6.45 on. B'que Ind. G.. Bonds, $68 % ca. HEG. Loan 7% From.

"FITWELL"

SHOES

FOR MEN

As the name implies so do "Fitwell" Shoes fit the foot. They fit snugly round the ankle at the same time provide ample room for the tocs..

SPECIAL VALUE PRICE

$19.50

Lega 10% Discount for Chah.

Besides Fitwell" Shocs at $19 50 we are also Sole Agents for the * Dome Shoe at $21,50 "Keltic" at $26.50 "Bective" at $35.00. They are all British made and at their respective prices offor the utmost value.

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